Scheuber’s ‘Autarcique’ Is Full of Dark Synthwave Delights
Scheuber’s Autarcique is a superb synthwave album infused with equal parts dark dance beats and fine song crafting. The result is beautiful.
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Nuovo Testamento’s ‘Love Lines’ Is an ’80s New Wave Italo Extravaganza
Who knew the music of mullets, wrap-around shades, and bodysuits could be so compelling? Nuovo Testamento’s Love Lines succeeds and transports the listener.
In ‘How Far the Light Reaches’ Ocean Science and Memoir Make Magic
How Far the Light Reaches weaves struggles with identity – gender identity, sexuality, ethnicity, and body image – with the immense diversity of marine life, revealing new ways to think about ourselves.
CORLYX’s ‘Blood in the Disco’ Combines Nostalgia and Innovation in Their Gothic Rock
Blood in the Disco isn’t just CORLYX’s best album yet, it’s one of the best goth rock albums to emerge yet this decade.
Spanish Poet Eva Baltasar Tackles the Lesbian Parenting Novel With ‘Boulder’
With Boulder, Eva Baltasar lays bare with her incisive power of observation and blade-like prose the unpleasant realities of parenthood.
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Uýra of ‘Uýra: The Rising Forest’ on Nature’s Trans[formational] Power
Brazilian artist Uýra shares how Indigenous struggles to preserve the natural world intersect with queer efforts in an essential act for humankind’s survival.
Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘Inseparable’ Resonates in Our Times
Simone de Beauvoir’s Inseparable reveals the devastating consequences of succumbing to conventions at the expense of one’s own autonomy and well-being.
The ’80s Were No Fun: An Interview with Bob Mould
Bob Mould discusses being gay in the 1980s, the far-right threatening LGBTQ rights, his recent political LP Blue Hearts, and how he still has faith.
Elliott Page and Mark Rendall Break Out the Omnichord to Spread Joy
The eponymous three-song EP Mark and Elliott is simply the most fun, upbeat musical way possible to end off a summer we all desperately needed.
Electronic Industrial Massiv in Mensch Hit All the Right Beats on ‘Türkis und Schwarz’
After two decades, Massiv in Mensch keep things fresh and innovative on Türkis und Schwarz, perhaps the best album yet from the electronic/industrial group.
Short Story Collection ‘Transitions’ Sets the Mind in Motion
Transitions is an exceptional collection of short stories that deserves recognition both for the quality of the writing and its provocative themes.
Shiori Ito and the ‘Black Box’ of Sexual Assault in Japan
Shiori Ito’s memoir ‘Black Box’ smashes open the legal norms that box in sexual assault victim’s rights in Japan and drags the system’s misogyny into the light.